"Annemarie Jacir's film about the Arab anti-colonial uprising in the late 1930s arrives in the UK just as the British government has declared recognition of a Palestinian state. It's a film to compare with Michael Winterbottom's Shoshana and Cherien Dabis's All That's Left of You, dramas that reopen the fraught issue of Britain's own colonial history in Palestine. This is a heartfelt film, if rather stolidly paced and sometimes pedagogically conveyed."
"The cast includes such Palestinian heavyweight actors as Hiam Abbass and Saleh Bakri as passionate rebels. Jeremy Irons plays the high commissioner Sir Arthur Wauchope who presides with bland complacency over this troublesome possession. The other colonials are divided, in the traditional style, into good British Billy Howle as a troubled and ineffectually pro-Arab civil servant and bad British Robert Aramayo as the brutal Captain Orde Wingate, who here personifies the arrogance and cruelty of the coloniser,"
Palestine 36 reconstructs the late 1930s Arab anti-colonial uprising and the tensions in British Mandate Palestine against the backdrop of emerging Zionist aspirations. The narrative centers on Yusuf, a village boy who works for a centrist-liberal Jerusalem newspaper editor and becomes radicalized by British brutality. The cast includes Hiam Abbass, Saleh Bakri, Jeremy Irons as High Commissioner Sir Arthur Wauchope, Billy Howle as a conflicted pro-Arab civil servant, and Robert Aramayo as Captain Orde Wingate. The film uses measured pacing and didactic moments to trace colonial violence, replacement of Palestinian labour, and competing colonial attitudes toward Zionism.
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